Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...space was difficult. The problem of relating the color to the living greens outside was difficult. A master at color problems, Matisse produced in April, 1932, after two years' work, Danse Heroique, six grey nudes dancing against vertical bands of pink, blue and black. As it neared completion, he called it "the goal towards which I have been striving, and I think it will illuminate the whole path along which I have come." His friends rated it his greatest job, demanded a preview in Paris. M. Matisse and Dr. Barnes agreed. Then Matisse, no master of space problems, discovered...
...Paris in the 20th Century. No individual, no family history could adequately cover so broad a scene. Says Author Romains: "What I see before my eyes is life in the 20th Century, our own life as modern men. I face the fact that this life of ours is very difficult to group around any central character. ... A century ago it may not have been absurd to make the whole life of a city like Paris gravitate around a single individual. . . . Today, in my belief, it would be rather ridiculous. I also face the fact that, in the world...
...German Government and German people will not. however, under any circumstances, submit to being compelled to affix their signature to anything that would be tantamount to perpetuating Germany's disqualification. ... As a nation under perpetual stigma it also would be difficult for us to remain within the League of Nations...
This is not primarily a trial of fact but of intent. And at law Intent is notoriously difficult to prove...
...mean that it is just a difficult case or that the defendant may therefore be guilty?" asks Mr. Medalie...